From exploring elements of dance to creating beats, this installment in our summer learning series invites learners to MOVE this summer– whether they’re dancing, twisting, stomping or running! The first video is a moving exploration of the elements of dance. Other videos highlight the power and significance of exercise. The last video, Bure Beat, highlights movement in a cultural context.

The Five Elements of Dance
How fluent are you in the language of dance? Follow along as we detail the five elements that all forms of dance and creative movement have in common. Being able to identify and understand these core characteristics can help when talking about a dance performance or can help you get your own messages across through movement.

How the Body Responds to Exercise
This video segment adapted from NOVA describes the effect of exercise on the body and defines one measure used to gauge aerobic fitness. VO2 max (maximal volume of oxygen uptake) is a measurement of how well the body gets and consumes the oxygen that muscles need in order to sustain activity. Learn how the entire cardiovascular system benefits from exercise and how the body’s response to the demands of physical activity is a survival mechanism.

Strength, Endurance, and Power
In this Science Now video middle school students discover the importance of exercise in maintaining fitness and preventing disease. Human fitness – physical strength, stamina, and power – is totally dependent upon the health and functioning of the collection of mitochondria located inside each of the 32 trillion cells in the body.

Recess Helps You Think
Help students understand why physical activity is important for both the body and the mind. Amidst a national focus on testing and raising academic performance, a different kind of movement is catching on. Use this PBS NewsHour video report from February 2014, to understand how active learning incorporates strategies like dance and play to help students concentrate better, navigate social situations and practice leadership and patience. Teachers and administrators who create the right balance of academics and play report promising results in their classroom.

Bure Beat
Explore the Fiji Beat Making Lab experience, at this crossroads between traditional Fijian culture and new-age technology and rhythm. These artists, both from Fiji and from all around the globe, collaborate together to sample, mix, and perform amazing feats of song and dance. The Beat Making Lab travels all around the world to explore the influence that culture has on musical heritage, as well the newly emerging accessibility of producing electronic music.

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Summer is a great opportunity to take a closer look at the art around us. With this summer series, entice students to engage with a variety of popular videos from KQED and PBS LearningMedia. These graffiti and street art videos highlight pioneers of Bay Area graffiti, the most popular places to paint, and different styles of graffiti.

Bay Area Graffiti: The Early Years
In this video, see rarely-seen photos of San Francisco Bay Area graffiti in the 1980s captured by photographer Jim Prigoff, co-author of the seminal book on early graffiti “Spraycan Art”. Artist Neon describes the styles, spots, and writers that had an early influence on the Bay Area graffiti scene.

Know Your Graffiti Vocab
Do you the difference between a tag and a burner? We asked graffiti artist Neon to describe the five different types of graffiti on the streets. Knowing these terms can help you evaluate, critique, and appreciate these giant, text-based murals.

The Art of Screaming in Color: Scape Martinez, Graffiti Artist
Graffiti artist Edward Martinez adopted the alter-ego “Scape,” as an acronym for “Screaming, Creative, and Positive Energy”. That energy is evident both in his vividly pulsating paintings and in his work with under-served youth in East Palo Alto, California.

Adam5100
Adam5100 has been working with a spray can since his days as a teenage graffiti writer living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Confessing that his early tagging was “the blight of society,” Adam5100 has since become one of the Bay Area’s most talented young painters.

David Choe
The South Bay graffiti artist, David Choe, is celebrated for startling visual intensity crossed with streetwise vision. He paints fast and furious — using aerosol, acrylic and watercolors — able to nimbly capture the slightest emotional serration. His works bridge two worlds and mindsets — the street and the gallery.

The long days of summer offer excellent opportunities for engaging in reading. From graphic novel creating to bolstering literacy skills across subjects, these resources can support reading all summer long. Find more resources for summer learning at PBS LearningMedia. Create a free account to save resources and create interactive learning experiences for students.

Graphic Novels with Thien Pham | Videos | Grades 6-12
Thien Pham is an Oakland artist and educator. His book, Sumo, is a graphic novel about an aspiring Sumo wrestler. It’s a quiet and meaningful story, written and illustrated by Pham, who is one of the most dedicated comic artists in the Bay Area. Pham shows how to draw a four-panel comic and demonstrates ideas for character development.

Meet a Comic Book Artist | Videos and Lesson Plan | Grades 5-8
Meet writer and comic book artist Phil Jimenez, who has worked for DC and Marvel Comics. Jimenez describes his early inspiration, gives tips for good storytelling, and discusses the unique way comics approach sequential narrative. Use the student assignment handout to review Jimenez’s advice, and an assignment on making a visual story about an “everyday adventure,” and the teacher handout for reflection prompts and discussion questions about visual storytelling that focus on Common Core State Standards for Writing: Text Types and Purposes, for students in grades 6, 7, and 8.

Rosemary Wells | Videos and Booklist | Grades 2-7
Rosemary Wells is the author and illustrator of delightful books for youngsters. In this interview, Wells talks about creating books for children and their adult readers that will stand up to being read over and over again. Watch the interview, view the interview transcript, read a short biography on Rosemary Wells, or see a selected list of her children’s books.

Brian Selznick | Videos and Booklist | Grades 4-7
Brian Selznick feels that his illustrations are more authentic when he immerses himself in his subject matter. For the picture book “Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride”, Selznick spent six months in Washington, DC conducting research at libraries and museums. For his Caldecott-Honor-winning illustrations in “The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins”, he traveled to London to sketch, photograph, and climb inside the famous dinosaur replicas. For his best-selling 533-page illustrated novel, “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, Selznick watched old French films, interviewed experts, and traveled to Paris three times. That book won the 2008 Caldecott Medal for it’s groundbreaking “cinematic” illustrations. Learn about his research methods, how he ended up as a children’s illustrator, and his childhood inspirations in this series of Meet the Author videos.

Middle School Literacy Collection | Self-Paced Lessons | Grades 5-8
These online self-paced lessons for blended learning, funded by the Walmart Foundation, are designed to enhance the literacy skills of struggling readers in grades 5–8. Each uses videos, interactive activities, note taking, reading, and writing to present students with an engaging science, social studies, mathematics, or English language arts topic.ys: Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1,Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V. The interactive and video resources in this collection are designed to aid teachers in exploring these complex plays with their students. Use the viewing guide, supplemental teaching tips, discussion questions, background essays, and activities to analyze and compare the films with Shakespeare’s original text, discover major themes, and delve deeper into the stories’ historical backgrounds.dual guide is provided for A Tale of Two Cities. You may also wish to use the resources in the Charles Dickens Book and Film Club.

From a multi-media history lesson to a modern approach to tinytype portraits, explore tales from history’s battlefield with these PBS LearningMedia videos. These videos tell stories of soldiers and veterans from across the country and through the ages. PBS LearningMedia is the free public media digital library with trusted quality standards aligned resources for teaching and learning. Sign up for a free account to save resources, download videos and build interactive media experiences for the classroom.

Photographer on a Mission | Video | Grades 6-13+
Ed Drew’s tintype portraits of his fellow soldiers in Afghanistan evoked the timelessness of war. Once he returned to the United States, Drew turned his lens toward an organic garden project that’s empowering at-risk youth. Drew takes the best portraits when the students are relaxed. Before every pose, he chats with them, finding common ground and creating a bond that will help him tell their stories. He hopes casting their images within the context of fine art may help dispel negative stereotypes.

Last Days of Vietnam | Videos | Grades 9-12
Experience the moral dilemmas facing both U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon in April 1975 in this video adapted from American Experience: Last Days in Vietnam. Also learn about the decision to evacuate Americans and South Vietnamese from the U.S. embassy and about the experience of a South Vietnamese Army lieutenant who stayed behind. American Experience: Last Days in Vietnam premiers 4/28.

Joan Ganz Cooney Recites the Gettysburg Address | Video | Grades K-12
Watch Joan Ganz Cooney, Elmo, and Murray recite the Gettysburg Address as part of Ken Burns’ challenge to all Americans to learn the address.
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, documentarian Ken Burns, along with numerous partners, has launched a national effort to encourage everyone in America to video record themselves reading or reciting the speech. The collection of recordings housed on this site will continue to grow as more and more people are inspired by the power of history and take the challenge to Learn the Address.

The War of 1812 | Lesson Plan | Grades 2-4, 13+
This lesson plan, to be used with the program The War of 1812, gives students background information about the diverse perspectives of those groups involved in the war: Americans, British, Canadian Colonists, and First Nations.

Tuskegee Airmen | Video | Grades 5-10
The Tuskegee Airmen, officially known as the 332nd fighter group, were the first African Americans to fly planes in the U.S. military. Although they faced severe discrimination in the country and mandates of the Jim Crow laws in the south, they volunteered in large numbers to help fight in World War II. This segment of Iowa Public Television’s Iowa’s WWII Stories includes historical footage and profiles an Iowa veteran and member of the Tuskegee Airmen.

SEALs in the Vietnam War | Navy SEALs | Grades 6-12
Understand key elements of U.S. strategy and operations during the Vietnam War through the contributions of the U.S. Navy SEALs to this conflict. SEAL teams partnered with the CIA to train their South Vietnamese counterparts and they collaborated with American military scientists on weapons technology. Because they wore camouflage makeup during their missions, the SEAL combat teams in Vietnam were known as “Men with Green Faces.”

Civil War Soldier and Spy | Video | Grades 6-12
It is estimated that between 500 and 1,000 women went into military service during the American Civil War, yet their contributions to major events of that era are often overlooked, misunderstood, misrepresented, or undocumented. Using excerpts from the documentary film Rebel: Loreta Velazquez Civil War Soldier and Spy and the remarkable story of Loreta Velazquez as a guide, students will: consider how factors such as gender and race shape our understanding of history.

WWII Oral History Project | Video Collection | Grades 6-12
GPB’s World War II Veterans Oral History Project presents the story of World War II through the personal accounts of men and women from Georgia whose lives were touched by the war. Through letters, photographs, and full-length video interviews, the project makes the experiences of Georgia’s “greatest generation” available for generations to come.

Military Families | PBS NewsHour | Grades 7-12
There are over 21.2 million veterans living today in the United States. They served the country during the last six wars World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan. The video shares the unique perspective of elementary to high school students in military living on a base in the Middle Eastern country of Bahrain.

Escalation of the Vietnam War | Video | Grades 9-13+
In this video segment adapted from American Experience, view archival photos, newsreel footage, and interviews to examine the decision-making process that led Lyndon Johnson to order increased United States military involvement in the Vietnam War. With military and political advisers recommending massive American troop involvement over a number of years, and only one adviser urging complete withdrawal, Johnson chose to continue the commitments made by past presidents. This decision reflected Johnson’s conviction that history taught the United States never to give in to aggressors.

Voices of Veterans | Video | Grades 13+
Veterans help make history come alive each year at North Warren Regional School District with their Voices of Veterans program in this episode of NJEA’s Classroom Close-up. Students invite veterans into their school to learn about what it means to serve in the military. Teachers and school staff also share their own personal connections with veterans that are particularly close to their hearts. The program and veterans’ stories help students make connections with the information they read about in history books.

Join PBS LearningMedia and American Experience for an exclusive preview of the Academy Award®-nominated film, Last Days in Vietnam, and a discussion of the teaching resources adapted from the film. Register now for this free webinar on Monday, 4/27, and don’t miss the broadcast premiere on 4/28. http://goo.gl/iAk14N

Join KQED at the STEAM Colloquium this Friday, January 30th in San Ramon from 7:30am to 4:00pm at the San Ramon Marriott. This year’s colloquium includes the following strands: Designing for the Future, Designing for Early Learners, and Designing for Integration Designing for Leading. Visit KQED at the resource fair and participate in our session at 12:45pm. Also check out resources for teaching STEAM below.

Session

Integrate Arts Media to Address Standards and Introduce Concepts
12:45pm – 2pm
Room: Salon B
The Common Core requires that students build critical viewing skills using media as a teaching tool. KQED’s media engages students and aligns with Common Core standards and the forthcoming national standards for arts. Through studies of art, students are introduced to expressions of global, technological, and scientific concepts.Presentation Slides

Resource Collection List

Grades K-5

Chuck Vanderchuck’s “Something Something” Explosion
Chuck Vanderchuck’s “Something Something” Explosion is designed to help children ages six to nine understand music and music composition by teaching basic musical concepts and performance skills through the study of popular song styles from around the world.

Visual Arts Toolkit
Videos in the Visual Arts Toolkit collection explore the elements of art and the principles of design as well as the design process from the planning stages to final creation.

Songs for Unusual Creatures
This video series spotlights aye-ayes, elephant shrews, blue-footed boobies and other oddities. Each episode features a visit to the animal paired with one of Mr. Hearst’s original compositions.

Grades 6-12

Social Studies and Arts
Studies in visual art provide an opportunity for students to learn about world history, cultures, and geography while engaging creativity. Use this video collection to give students a sense of the role art has played in Chinese, African, Mexican, Iranian and Native American cultures, and how contemporary artists interpret such global art traditions. Use the first two videos as a foundation for introducing students to a digestible timeline of art throughout history. Next, dive into this collection of short videos that reveal the intentions of today’s artists, and how they are inspired by historical works of art.

Social Studies and World History through Music and Dance
When students are learning about world cultures and global issues, infuse some engaging art content into your lessons with this collection of videos that focus on folk music and dance from around the globe that either maintains a tradition, or adapts customary traditions with contemporary styling.

Math and Arts
This collection of lesson plans use dance, drama, music, and visual arts to teach math concepts.

Digital and Mobile Art
In the digital age, artists have acquired new tools for creation including computers and mobile devices. This collection provides engaging background information about digital artists and art made using apps, computer graphics, and other digital tools.

Art and the Environment
This Spark collection focuses on artists whose environmental concerns are apparent in their work. Integrate the arts into eco-literacy, and discover different ways that artists address environmental issues through their art practice.

Makers
Use this collection, which is categorized into design, how to (DIY), arts and crafts, robotics, and engineering subtopics, in conjunction with hands-on activities to further this initiative. Like the Maker Party, this collection is designed to encourage hands-on engagement in science, technology, engineering, math, and the arts.

Making Stuff
These media resources provide an inside look at the field of materials science and encourage a better understanding of the scientific innovations that are developing materials that will shape our future.

How Integrating Arts Into Other Subjects Makes Learning Come Alive| MindShift Article
Art has long been recognized as an important part of a well-rounded education — but when it comes down to setting budget priorities, the arts rarely rise to the top. Many public schools saw their visual, performing and musical arts programs cut completely during the last recession, despite the many studies showing that exposure to the arts can help with academics too. A few schools are taking the research to heart, weaving the arts into everything they do and finding that the approach not only boosts academic achievement but also promotes creativity, self-confidence and school pride.

Let PBS LearningMedia help you prepare for Black History Month with an outstanding collection of resources. Begin with a briefing on the origins of this cultural heritage month with About Black History Month, a resource from the U.S. Department of State. Then dive into the history of the African American experience with classroom ready resources from the documentary, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. And challenge students to explore the question of how different cultural groups are acknowledged in American history, media, and culture with video clips, lesson plans and an app from the film, Should Black History Be More Than a Month?.

About Black History Month | Document
With this article from the U.S. Department of State, learn about the origins of the upcoming heritage month, what it was initially called and why February was the chosen month.

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross | Videos, Lesson Plans & Interactives
Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. recounts the full trajectory of African-American history in his groundbreaking series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. The series explores the history of African American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed — forging their own history, culture and society against unimaginable odds. Using video clips from The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, this collection of lesson plans addresses a wide range of themes of the African American experience from 1500 to the present.

Should Black History Be: More Than a Month? | Videos, Lesson Plan & App
Should Black History Month be ended? That’s the question explored by filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman as he embarks on his cross-country campaign. Both amusing and thought provoking, More Than a Month examines what the treatment of history tells us about race and power in America. Classrooms can use the guide without watching the entire film, by watching the film clips and discussing the synopsis. “Whose History” provides a one-to-three day lesson plan designed to further students’ understanding of the film and to explore the question of how different cultural groups are acknowledged in American history, media, and culture.

In the spirit of year-end traditions, here are the top 10 favorite PBS staff resource picks for 2014. This broad list of compelling resources for every grade represents some of the most popular content in PBS LearningMedia. Find these and 87,000 more videos, lessons and interactives at pbslearningmedia.org.

Mister Rogers’ & Daniel Tiger | Grades PreK-2
In this PBS LearningMedia collection Daniel Tiger and Mister Rogers videos are thematically paired for some of the most thorough, thoughtful and imaginative educational material for Pre-K learners. With this collection, explore full episodes from a variety of arts and sciences themes as well themes focused around ideas of community, family and social experiences. Many episodes also introduce young viewers to factories, workshops, or renowned performers to broaden the viewer’s understanding of the world around them.

The Electric Company Collection | Grades 1-3
Over thirty years ago The Electric Company turned on the power of possibility for kids by showing them that learning to read can be fun. In 2009, the power surged back with the all-new The Electric Company inviting 5 to 9 year old children into a playful, funny and musical world that cleverly puts reading and writing at its heart. The project features comedic storylines, short animations, hip music and celebrities of today. The backbone of the show is vocabulary (including math-related words), phonics and reading comprehension.

Plum Landing Collection | Grades 1-4
This innovative environmental education project from WGBH invites elementary students to virtually visit ecosystems around the world—rainforests, deserts, and more—and then to head outdoors to explore their own ecosystems through lesson plans, videos, online games, and hands-on activities. These resources—aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards—immerse students in content topics and science process skills.

Looking for Lincoln: Views on Slavery | Grades 5-8
With this lesson, students examine Abraham Lincoln’s views on slavery and race as they evolved throughout his early life and throughout his presidency. The lesson begins with students examining how aspects of American society and life have changed over the course of their lifetimes, as well as the reasons for change in their own personal lives. Students then review how Lincoln’s stance on slavery shifted over the course of his political career. Through an examination of historical quotations and primary source documents, students learn that the Emancipation Proclamation was the result of a complex and sometimes contradictory interplay of circumstances – some political, some personal, and some societal.

This lesson is part of a collection with videos, interactives and lessons created to bring the documentary, Looking for Lincoln, into the classroom. The PBS series addresses many of the controversies surrounding Lincoln – race, equality, religion, politics, and depression – by carefully interpreting evidence from those who knew him and those who study him today.

Mission US: A Cheyenne Odyssey | Grades 6-8
Mission 3 is part of a series of interactive, Choose Your Own Adventure style games. In Mission 3:A Cheyenne Odyssey, players become Little Fox, a Northern Cheyenne boy whose life is changed by the encroachment of white settlers, railroads, and U.S. military expeditions. As buffalo diminish and the U.S. expands westward, players experience the Cheyenne’s persistence through conflict and national transformation. The best part about this game is that each student playing has a unique gameplay experience based on individual choices, skill, and understanding of the period.

Broadway or Bust Collection | Grades 6-12
Student and coaches participating in the 2012 National High School Musical Theater Awards share their experiences of the stage in these video clips. Students can explore how to improve skills as a performer, with this collection of resources from Broadway or Bust. This collection stands out because of the real and relatable contestants that are highlighted.

KQED Art School | Grades 6-13+
This KQED web video series introduces contemporary artists who discuss their careers and intentions, then demonstrate hands-on techniques or concepts. Art School provides resources for learning how to break dance, draw comic strips, create animations, and much more. This collection is chock full of new ideas for creativity presented by a variety of professional artists.

Beat Making Lab | Grades 6-13+
Explore the inspiring musical mission of DJs Pierce Freelon and Stephan Levitin, and their globe-trotting Beat Making Lab. Produced by PBS Digital Studios, the Beat Making Lab travels all around the world sharing their love of electronic music with aspiring artists from developing countries, using this emerging new genre to communicate ideas of culture, health, and artistic expression. Learn about the process of digital music creation, the technology that makes beat-making possible, and the amazing artists who are pioneering the electronic music revolution. What’s inspiring is the Beat Making Lab’s use of electronic music to communicate ideas about history, culture and artistic expression – it’s a wonderful way to engage the minds of youth in a current, compelling way!

Transformative Teachers | Grades 13+
The Transformative Teachers resources are designed to equip educators with tools and methods for fostering resilience and ethical leadership skills among young people and features videos on teaching empathy, gratitude, forgiveness and self-acceptance. Your students develop core values through art, writing, performing and other activities with the help of this collection. A word of warning, watching students explore these skills may make your eyes water.

Webinar: How We Got to Now | Grades 1-13+
This year, PBS debuted “How We Got to Know” with Steven Johnson, a documentary series on ideas and innovation. Revisit this archived conversation with Johnson and offer your students an understanding of how simple ideas and inventions – from eyeglasses to refrigerators – have revolutionized the way humans interact with the world! The series is a thought-provoking exploration of the stories behind the ideas and inventions that made the modern world possible.

Spider biologist, app artist, mechatronics engineer. . . Art School videos feature working artists demonstrating artistic practices that students can follow along with. Career Spotlight videos show the variety of career options in STEM fields. These are just a few of the career profiles found in PBS LearningMedia and they offer a great starting point for a discussion around college and career readiness that can be paired with an infographic on the economic value of a college education.

Art Schoolis a KQED web video series that introduces contemporary artists who discuss their careers and intentions, then demonstrate hands-on techniques or concepts. Art School provides resources for learning how to break dance, draw comic strips, create animations, and much more. Empower folks of all ages to engage with contemporary art, and discover new ideas for creativity from a variety of professional artists through this fun and engaging series.

Career Spotlightincludes videos focusing on science careers in biotechnology and renewable energy from careers in Biotechnology – Learn about three careers in biotechnology from working professionals in the field. And careers in renewable energy – From a kite designer to a microbiologist, hear from engineers, a scientist, and a technician working to move the renewable energy industry forward.

The Secret Life of Scientists & Engineers is an Emmy-nominated web-series from the acclaimed PBS series, NOVA. “Secret Life” profiles today’s leading scientists—and shows what they’re like when the lab coats come off—showing viewers a human side of science that many students can relate to.

Modeling Relationships: The Cost of College is an eye-opening infographic that compares the cost of tuition over time to employment rates and job growth by education. The increasing cost of college tuition can leave many graduates burdened with debt and struggling to find meaningful employment in their field of choice. Given these realities, is college really worth the price? Have your students examine this topic, using data from an infographic to support their arguments. In the accompanying classroom activity, students predict the cost of four years of college tuition and discuss the idea of whether college a solid investment. They use the infographic, extrapolate tuition costs for their own college years, and revisit whether college is worth it using data to support their arguments.

KQED, in partnership with the CCSESA Arts initiative and the California Department of Education, presented three lunchtime webinars introducing free arts education media resources. PBS LearningMedia is a free library of media resources with content for all K-12 subject areas that is made for student audiences and aligned with statewide content standards. Access the archived versions of these webinars via the links above.

Arts Collections

Art School
A KQED web video series that introduces contemporary artists who discuss their careers and intentions, then demonstrate hands-on techniques or concepts. Art School provides resources for learning how to break dance, draw comic strips, create animations, and much more. Empower folks of all ages to engage with contemporary art, and discover new ideas for creativity from a variety of professional artists through this fun and engaging series.

Drawing Ideas
Drawing and illustration are often the foundation for creation. Artists often sketch ideas and flesh them out into detailed, 2D works, or they use sketching as a tool for building 3D or digital objects. Meet some of the most exciting artists around, and discover different ways that artists use drawing and illustration to communicate messages.

Social Studies and World History through Music and Dance
When students are learning about world cultures and global issues, infuse some engaging art content into your lessons with this collection of videos that focus on folk music and dance from around the globe that either maintains a tradition, or adapts customary traditions with contemporary styling.

Culture Creates Community
A collection of short, classroom-ready videos about artists and arts organizations that maintain or adapt traditional art forms, and build a sense of community through their art practices. Use this collection to illustrate content covered in World History and Social Studies classes, and to inspire meaningful visual and performing arts projects.

Art and Social Studies
Studies in visual art provide an opportunity for students to learn about world history, cultures, and geography while engaging creativity. Use this video collection to give students a sense of the role art has played in Chinese, African, Mexican, Iranian and Native American cultures, and how contemporary artists interpret such global art traditions. Use the first two videos as a foundation for introducing students to a digestible timeline of art throughout history. Next, dive into this collection of short videos that reveal the intentions of today’s artists, and how they are inspired by historical works of art.

Animation
Animation in all its forms is one of the most popular creative careers that interests our students these days. From hand-drawn animation, to stop-motion animation, to animation used to create videos games, there are endless possibilities when it comes to studying this dynamic art form. Learn about the many aspects of animation through this collection of videos highlighting a range of animation artists. With this collection, you can learn about the history of animation in popular culture, and get tips on how to start your career as an animator.

Beat Making Lab
Explore the inspiring musical mission of DJs Pierce Freelon and Stephan Levitin, and their globe-trotting Beat Making Lab. Produced by PBS Digital Studios, the Beat Making Lab travels all around the world sharing their love of electronic music with aspiring artists from developing countries, using this emerging new genre to communicate ideas of culture, health, and artistic expression. Learn about the process of digital music creation, the technology that makes beat-making possible, and the amazing artists who are pioneering the electronic music revolution.

The Art Assignment
Can you think outside the box? Join curator Sarah Green as she interviews some of today’s most inspiring artists and offers a historical exploration behind their methods and techniques. Whether it’s transforming materials to help people look at the changing environment with new eyes, or taking classic artistic trends and adding a modern twist, The Art Assignment shows that true art can come in many shapes and sizes.

PBS Idea Channel
Explore the crossroads of art, science, and pop culture with PBS Idea Channal. Hosted by Mike Rugnetta, the Idea Channel launched in 2012 and has since posted over 100 videos, with more added every Wednesday. The program has quickly grown to one of the most watched on the web, winning multiple Webby Awards and recieving praise for Mike’s active engagement in the viewing community. Each video contains feedback and replies to previous work, keeping the program fresh and establishing a platform for discussion.

Off Book
Learn about the art, the people, and the culture of the digital revolution with Off Book. This revolution program from PBS Digital Studios combines top-tier journalism with the underground, and often ignored, subject matter of today’s modern digital age. With topics ranging from internet culture and graphic design, to the worlds of videogames and coding, Off Book examines the changing world of contemporary art like it’s never been seen before.